CB Insights vs QuantRocket comparison

Unique

• Global company intelligence platform covering private and public companies, investors, deals, and M&A activity.
• APIs and enterprise data feeds providing structured access to company, funding, and investor datasets.
• Microsoft Excel add-in to pull in CB Insights company data, Mosaic Scores, and taxonomies directly into spreadsheets.
• Salesforce integration to embed company and investor insights into CRM workflows.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Graph Connector to surface CB Insights data directly inside Copilot experiences.
• Snowflake data delivery with feeds optimized for AI and analytics use cases.

Unique

• Includes survivorship-bias-free US minute-bar data (from 2007 onward) for Zipline backtests and live trading, with optional real-time feeds from brokers like IBKR and Alpaca.
• Supports point-in-time screening and ranking pipelines, and integrates with Alphalens and Pyfolio for in-notebook analysis inside Jupyter.
• Global coverage through Interactive Brokers’ historical and real-time data across 60+ exchanges, plus optional feeds like EDI global EOD, Sharadar fundamentals, and Brain sentiment datasets.
• Deep IBKR integration enabling advanced order types such as algorithmic, parent-child, and bracket orders, as well as combos/spreads, margin 'what-if' checks, option greeks, and auction imbalance data.
• Streams tick-level data into TimescaleDB with WebSocket access, and allows flexible bar aggregation.
• REST API ('Houston') with Python client and CLI tools; endpoints return CSV or JSON for easy downstream use.